About Kerry
Kerry Branum is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life changes. He also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and career questions. Kerry pulls from counseling and coaching to offer practical steps people can try between sessions.
He uses straightforward conversation to map where someone is and what they want to change. Kerry blends skill teaching with reflective conversation so clients learn tools and also make sense of their experiences.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal setting, homework like small experiments, and practice of new ways to cope. Kerry trained at Missouri Baptist University and also earned an Educational Specialist degree in counselor education from the University of Mississippi. He has 14 years of experience as a counselor, coach, and teacher.
That background informs his mix of teaching, coaching, and talk therapy. He favors approaches that focus on thinking, behavior, and relationships. Kerry draws on cognitive behavior techniques, acceptance-style strategies, attachment ideas, and emotion-focused methods depending on the concern.
He explains options plainly and tailors the plan to each person's pace. People who reach out can expect a direct but empathetic style. Kerry aims to make skills usable in day-to-day life and to help clients build steadier routines, clearer boundaries, and better communication.
The work is practical and collaborative, with attention to immediate problems and longer term goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and to take actions that match their values. ACT can help when worry, avoidance, or low motivation get in the way of daily goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life experiments. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and learning new coping skills.
Attachment-Based ideas bring attention to how past relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses. These ideas can guide work on intimacy, communication, and trust issues.
Kerry treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. He will discuss options, try methods together, and adjust tactics based on progress, needs, and personal preferences. Clients play an active role in choosing what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits many schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper skill practice, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching prompts, or when a shorter, more frequent touch helps maintain momentum. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, caregiving, or travel while still using the chosen therapeutic approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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